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Florida International University is a public institution of higher education with two main campuses in southeastern Florida, one in southwestern Miami-Dade County and one in North Miami. The university also operates academic centers in Broward county and downtown Miami. Florida International University was founded in 1965.

A comprehensive research university, Florida International awards bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, and professional degrees. The university includes colleges of arts and sciences; architecture and visual and performing arts; business; education; engineering and computing; law; medicine; nursing and health sciences; and public health and social work and schools of hospitality management and journalism and mass communications. It also operates an honors program and offers continuing education and online programs.

The student body consists of more than 40,000 students, most of whom are undergraduates. The majority of the students are Hispanic. More than a third of the undergraduates attend school part-time, and many are over the age of 25.

The university’s varsity sports teams, nicknamed the Golden Panthers, compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), with the football team participating in the Football Bowl Subdivision. School colors are blue and gold.

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